A climate of crisis
Subtitle: America in the age of environmentalism
By: Patrick Allitt
Series: Penguin history of American life; Penguin history of American life
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781594204661; 9780143127017
Subjects: Environmentalism; Climatic changes; Government policy; Environmental policy; History
Description: "Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts"--From dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-371) and index.
Table of contents: title: The schizophrenic fifties; title: Pollution and pessimism; title: Politics and the environment; title: Energy politics; title: Crises and critics; title: Anti- and counterenvironmentalists; title: Ecologists and historians; title: Deep and radical ecology; title: Global warming; title: Environmental issues of the 1990s; title: The new millennium.